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Colonel Neill left the Alamo due to illness in his family and turned over command to Travis.
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The first Mexican troops arrived prompting Travis to send a courier to Gonzales with a written message.
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Houston arrived at Washington-on-the-Brazos just as news of Santa Anna's siege of the Alamo reached the delegates assembling there and threatened to disrupt the convention.
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General Urrea's cavalry advanced along the Gulf coast, attacked thirty-four Texians under Frank Johnson at San Patricio.
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Texas wrote a declaration of independence which became the formal declaration of independence of Texas from Mexico.
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With only one negative vote, the delegates named Sam Houston commander in chief of the entire Texas army, volunteers and regulars alike.
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After 13 days of war Santa Anna and his troops reclaim the Alamo Mission.
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Sam Houston abandoned Gonzales to avoid the Mexican army.
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Texians reached Beason's Ferry on the east side of the Colorado.
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By the time the army reached San Felipe many critics of the commander in chief openly insisted that his every step had been wrong and talk of choosing a new leader began to circulate.
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Santa Anna reached San Felipe and learned that Houston was to the north at Groce's while the government was to the southeast at Harrisburg.
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Mexican scouts saw the two cannon and determined the location of the rebel army.
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The Texas army defeats the troops of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto.
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A search party brought in a prisoner whom other Mexicans saluted as "El Presidente". The Texians had captured General Santa Anna.
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General Santa Anna signed the Velasco Treaties, which ended the revolution and officially gives Texas their independence.
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Houston took passage on an American trading ship and reached New Orleans for medical treatment
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Voters chose the first congress of the republic, unanimously endorsed the constitution written back in March, and overwhelmingly supported annexation to the United States.
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Sam Houston Becomes the first president of Texas after it wins its independence from Mexico.
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Memucan Hunt formally proposed the annexation of Texas to the administration of Martin Van Buren.
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Mirabeau B. Lamar took office as the second president of the Republic of Texas but Sam Houston Ruined the occasion for him.
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Congress passed an act creating a five-man commission to locate a site "at some point between the rivers Trinity and Colorado and above the old San Antonio road."
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The Cherokees left their town but were attacked at dusk as they moved north
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Three Penateka Comache chiefs came into San Antonio and offered to negotiate a peace treaty.
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The Lamar administration mounted an important offensive against the Wichita Indians in North Texas
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The Santa Fe Expedition left Austin under the command of General Hugh McLeod, a West Point graduate who had served capably in the Cherokee War.
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The main party surrendered without resistance
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To uphold this part of the agreement, Commodore Moore left Galveston with three ships just as Lamar's term ended.
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Vice president Edward Burleson who had defeated Memucan Hunt for that office took office.
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Following the adjournment of congress many Texans still enraged over the treatment of the Santa Fe Expedition prisoners, demanded an attack on Mexico.
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A Mexican army under General Adrian Woll swept into Texas and captured San Antonio.
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He succeeded to the point of signing an armistice ending all fighting, but further negotiations failed to produce a satisfactory treaty.
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Annexation negotiation suffered a temporary setback when Secretary of State Upshur died in the explosion of a new gun being demonstrated on the USS Princeton.
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The United States Senate defeated the annexation treaty by a vote of 35 to 16.
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Houston second term was to end and the constitution prohibited successive terms for the president
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Campbell, R.B. (2018). Gone to Texas. A History of the Lone Star State. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Shearer, E. (1961). Sam Houston and Religion. Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 20(1), 38-50. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/42621514 -
Members of the states new government met with the leaders of the republic in front of the capitol in Austin for a ceremony marking the completion of annexation